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Heh. I actually channeled this in my writing without even having read Nietzsche. Turns out if there's no real reward for effort, no sapient being will exert it. Change that and you change the man.

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I don't know, I think it's much simpler, the mental health crisis: these people have no principles. They don't have any whys, and as Nietzsche said, if you have a why, you can bear any how. If you don't have a why, why then, you can't bear anything.

Once you have principles you can do hard things, and will likely be called by your principles to do hard things. But I'm not sure if doing hard things is a way to get some principles.

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